Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
February 11, 2013 04:12 am GMT

The Weekly Good: This Analytics Company Wants To Help Put An End To Human Trafficking

weekly-good41[Editor's Note: This is a weekly series. If your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, please reach out.] Random acts of kindness and good come from all different sources, some of them being from the last place you thought you’d find it. One such source is a New York City based analytics company called SumAll. What business do they have trying to put an end to human trafficking? I wasn’t sure, but it’s quite clear that the team has decided to make it its business. That’s exactly how good things get done though, when good people decide to make it so. Their product brings all of your data together to figure out how much you’re spending and making through services like AWS, PayPal and eBay. It then mashes up your costs and sales with social data from services like Twitter and Instagram to bust down silo walls so you can see everything in one place. That approach and passion easily translates its its non-profit venture SumAll.org. I”ve witnessed companies attempt to take some parts of their technology or product and make it available to other non-profits, but it seemed force. That is not the case with SumAll, here’s their approach: SumAll.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to doing social good by analyzing data. One of the biggest challenges facing charities and non-profits is the lack of resources and data analytics at their disposal. By providing better analytics, we can gauge the success and impact of a social effort and how to improve. Our goal is for charitable organizations to reach more people and to be more effective in the way they do it. If non-profits knew how successful their fundraising campaigns were, or not, they could use their resources in a better way the next time. There’s nothing worse than watching a charity churn and burn, only to fall flat on its face without ever realizing their original core mission. That’s where SumAll steps in. Next week, SumAll will be releasing some analytics that focus on four types of current slave labor, a comparison of 1860s Slavery vs. 2012 Slavery, a comparison of slavery in different countrie, and other human trafficking topics. The information will fittingly become available on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on February 12th. Even though the 13th Amendment abolished human trafficking and slavery, it is still very

Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/dxRLX1__kYo/

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Techcrunch

TechCrunch is a leading technology blog, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

More About this Source Visit Techcrunch